Kristin

“Obesity is not a disease. It is a lifestyle affliction. It is a symptom. It is a side-effect of poor habits and it can be reversed.”
― Nancy S. Mure, EAT! Empower. Adjust. Triumph!: Lose Ridiculous Weight, Succeed On Any Diet Plan, Bust Through Any Plateau in 3 Empowering Steps!

“see that her help is needed. Advocating means fighting for not fighting with. As I’ve said before in many different ways, you have to make your case in a manner that makes other people listen, and that usually means considering their needs as well as your own. You may feel as if your parents’ needs take precedence over your sibling’s—and they do—but this more communicative approach is likely to get more traction than making people defensive ever does. One great way to keep all of your family”
― Kimberly Guilfoyle, Making the Case: How to Negotiate Like a Prosecutor in Work and Life

“We Westerners define happiness as achieving or gaining what we want. In our definition, we’re happy when life is smooth, when we are on top of our game, when our marriages are fulfilling, and when we are reaching our goals. But the more we have, the more we want, and we begin to ride the deadly wave of hyperconsumerism. We fill our insecurities from the outside in, rather than the inside out. Christians are not exempt. I have done the drive-by to the mall on the way home to get a new “something” to make me feel like “someone,” forgetting that I was actually someone the whole time.”
― Bethany Haley Williams, The Color of Grace: How One Woman's Brokenness Brought Healing and Hope to Child Survivors of War

“God does not live in a perpetual state of disappointment over who we are.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You